Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 120, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1919 — HAPPENINGS in the CITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAPPENINGS in the CITIES

Marriage Joke That Has Gone Entirely Too Far CHl< AGO— This is a story about a man who accepted the congratulations and wedding presents his friends —arid then went out and got aw e. The wife, who is Mrs. Harriet L. Stille, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter

Wilcox, 201-f Waveland avenue, has announced that the joke has gone quite fur enough by filing a bill “for divorce.” “The plaintiff at the time she was induced to marry Walter T. Stille believed that he loved her,” the bill recites. In the spring of 1918, the bill asserts, Stille, who was employed in a loop office, secured a two-day vacation to attend the wedding of a brother. Upon returning to his office after the wedding the other clerks suspected

him of being a principal rather than an accessory. These suspicions, n 0 confirmed, were lit least not disproved, the bill says, and soon Walters ac was the recipient of many a hearty congratulatory smash. _ A day or two later the friends in the office presented Walter witli a cu - glass water set. You know how they do these things —everybody antes up, and the office boy goes out to buy whatever he sees and likes. „ “I would like have you come out and see my wife,” the “bridegroom said. He was playing the game and having a perfectly Jovely time. The whole office force accepted the invitation, and Walters smile n y ne ~ diately fled. There was a jam—now where was Waiter going to get a wi e ah! He had it. . . That same night, according to the bill, the little rose light in Harriet cox’s parlor blinked softly under the barrage of love Walter was sprinkling. On April 11, 1918, Harriet and Walter were married and the “bunch’ gave a nice little house wanning for them. * Things went along pretty smoothly for a while, the bill says, and h Walter started to neglect his wife and later turned to cruelty.

Quite a Welcome Awaits This Rainbow Corporal MANNING, ALA. —Is Manning taking on airs these days? It is. And is it proud of Corp. Sidney Bratton of the Rainbow division? It is. And Will he get a welcome when lie returns home? He will. This town is his to play

with. Why? Oh, well, the story goes like this: Gen. “Black Jack” Pershing went to Remagen on the Rhine the other day to inspect the Forty-second division and distribute some 50 decorations to officers and men. It took almost, two hours of the general’s fast walking up and down company rows tor the in-. spection —he thinks the only way to Inspect is to inspect. And then he presented the decorations. -■*

Corn Sidney Bratton received the congressional medal of honor for taking command of his platoon wheni he lieutenant commanding and finally the top sergeant had e .’ ed 30 men into an attack on the heights of the Ourcq and captured which he and eight survivors held against persistent enemy counter-attack*. Although suffering from nine wounds. Corporal Bratton maintained command and position until relieved by re-enforcements T, voftnn it General Pershing shook him by the hand and said: Corporal Bratton it ismenoZyour caliber who have emblazoned the name -of Arnica the world In the name of the president and of the people of the United States rcongratula te you; as your commander in chief I thank ybu heart: y for your UKexample; as fnan to man, Corporal Bratton, I want to tell you that 1 en in the'line for decorations Bratton stood first. Beside him stood a brigJ Xra? X «eelvM (be Distinguished Service „.ed ß l, but Bruttuu , Sue? was first before bls entire division that da s -an honor which goes Io him Who wears the starry blue ribbon that dangles the highest award for American bravery.

When the First “Leg Show’’ Opened in Chicago KT EW YORK.-Mrs. Jean Gravel died here the other day. Who was Mrs. N Jean Gravel? Why, Pauline Markham of Lydia Thompson s British Blondes” the famous stalacta of the “Black Crook,” who horsewhipped Editor Blonde, the famous staiat __ WilbuFTTStorFy of the Chicago Times

nearly half a century ago. Lydia Thompson’s troupe of “British Blondes” was playing an engagement at McVicker’s theater. It was the first so-called “leg” show to appear in Chicago. Mr. Storey had heard rumors of the alleged indecency of the performance, and he sent one of his reporters to see the show and " rite his impressions. Mr. Storey also indited a few lines for the editorial page which fairly sizzled. The “roast” was

printed in the Times February 24, 1870. That evening at five o’clock white Mr Storey was on his way home from the office he was waylaid->at Wabash avenue and Peck court by Miss Thompson, Miss Markham and Mr. Henderson, manager of the -British Blondes.” The editor was walking with head down, as was his custom, when he suddenly was confronted by the tno. Miss Thompson drew a short whip which was concealed in the folds of her skirt and began to rain blows on the head and shoulders of Mr. Storey. Unaware of cause for the assault, Mr. Storey kept shouting: “What do you mean. M hat do you mean?" He raised his hand to ward off the blows and at this juncture Miss Markham snatched the whip from Miss Thompson. She also belabored the editor until pedestrians came to his rescue. The identity of the women and their mate escort was soon established and their arrest followed. The article that appeared in the Times on the day following the assault made the original criticism look like a Sunday school lesson Mr. Storev wielded a vitriolic pen and the old reporters who were in the Times office that night used to tell in after years how blue smoke rolled off the pages of copy written by the boss.

Should a Mijin Object If a Pretty Stenographer— DENVER—Whv should a. man object If a pretty twenty-three-year-bld D stenographer’borrows his “chummy four” for a few moments just to run up to the*"statehouse to collect a little matter of S6O which the state owed her

for typing bills and reports in the house of Linnie Colyer, clerk of the agricultural committee of the house and the Mr. and Mrs. H. Colyer of Ordway, Colo., says she just can’t understand these men. And to think that anyone should have her arrested I It was primarily the fault of the legislators in holding up the salary appropriation. Miss Colyer had been ilh for two weeks from influenza at

520 Emerson street, and she felt that she wanted the S6O. After breakfast she decided she would go to tne statehouse and try to pry loose that S6O. She still felt too weak to climb the hilL She couldn’t understand why they always put statehouses’on hills, anyway. \cross the street she spied a “chummy four.” If the owner was a nice man he surely wouldn’t object if she borrowed the car for a few minutes to run up to the statehouse to collect that S6O. She had never driven anything hnt a “flivver” in Ordway, but she got the high-power car safely up Capitol hllL But before she had collected that S6O along came the owner of the car an<l at the city hall. Several friends vouched for cSier It was arranged that she should stay with relatives tn South Sii X had entirely recovered from the effects of the “flu.” it should be stated that Miss Colyer got that S6O.